«So the question has to be not so much ‘Is Big Brother watching?’ but ‘How in hell can it cope?’ We know what the NSA’s job is, but we don’t know how it does it. […] For all the doomsaying certainty of the news stories that have periodically filled front pages since early June we are still in the dark about most of the NSA’s actual methods and day to day activities.»
Daniel Soar, London Review of Books